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Awake, and Paralysed: A Never Event

Don't Forget the Bubbles

A retrospective cohort analysis of the ED portion of the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey from 2006 to 2009 in the US revealed that less than one-half of patients undergoing ETI in the ED received sedative drugs while in the ED. This is referred to as CPR I nduced C onsciousness ( CPRIC ). DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0b013e3182713316

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Advantages included: a good seal by a rescuer with a small mouth and a victim with a large mouth; excellent patency of the upper airway using head tilt and chin lift to tension the pharyngeal dilating muscles of the neck; gastric insufflation was less likely with the nasal cavities moderating the force of the airflow. Brown III, MD, Ali S.